The Meaning of Life, and all that.

Defining the Principal Questions,

in Honour of Douglas Adams.

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How
does anybody start with an essay on the subject of “What is the Meaning
of Life”? The Question here has to be known to be one of the heaviest
in Western philosophy and – in that – we welcome people to put forward
their own opinions and their own answers to the issues we put forward
in this essay, and we welcome people to join our religious view. This
essay is only our own opinion as to the question here, although this
statement does aim to say that there can be only one answer.

As
for being the High Priest for The Cult of R’Lyeh on Earth, I still
stand in that role; although I have recently become a part of the
communion of the local Church. Finding the answer as to What is the
Meaning of Life has convinced me that the God who created everything on
Earth, actually wants the destruction of the Galaxy. I’ll explain my
reasoning for this as this essay continues.

So
it’s the big question, really. The philosophical “big one” – the
question that has always been considered the most important and most
difficult to consider if we are to know the Cosmos as philosophers. It
is, admittedly, one fucking difficult question. That justifies this
essay, then, as to the perspective of The Cult of R’Lyeh on Earth as a
new contemporary religious view.

The
whole point in answering this, then, is that we must define our terms.
What does this question mean in the first place? This then brings us to
the next great philosophical statement; “I think therefore I am”.

In
this discussion, the idea is that if Mankind is conscious, then we must
have some purpose in that we all know that what we are is seen in terms
of how we experience. We are different from the can lying on the
street, because when we are in that position, we know that we are in
that position. The can is different – it is an object – it does not
know that it is sitting on cold pavement. So it is logical to ask
ourselves why are we here? If we experience then there must be a
meaning as to why we are here and aware of our own nature as experience?

Surprisingly
– and having really thought this through – I think the answer to the
question is quite straightforward. It’s one of those things; once you
regard it as being the case that the Illuminati are part of the Church,
it’s then always been obvious as fact. But I’d like to discuss a number
of points before getting directly to discussing this.

In
answering the Cosmic question as to “What is the Meaning of Life?” the
most difficult question to the philosopher is: What does this question
actually mean? Not in itself an easy question, either. It is human
nature to see things in these terms, and in terms of the way human
nature interprets different situations, this is one very, very, bizarre
concept to come to grips with.

The
local Church wanted to brainwash more converts, so they put on a course
of religious conversion called “The Alpha Project”. This conversion
Project put forward their ideas under which to convert with the
statement “The Meaning of Life is...?” I ended up debating the idea
with them, and have since agreed to be an honest following member of
their religious congregation.

Highbury
Church of St John opened their Project as part of a national Church
campaign who put their part in the Spectacle by asking this question.
They advertised the course as being an open discussion of the question,
with nothing to do with Christian indoctrination coming into it. The
actual fact of the Alpha Course was that it was the most full on
religious brainwashing imaginable. Churches were bannered with huge
tarpaulins with the question daubed across them. The idea was basically
to get people into Churches with the offer of serious philosophical
debate, and then brainwash them into the Christian religion.

These
banners had been up for months, and most people had walked past with
the idea of some Christian madness being part of the scene, and
literally ignored it. Some people had daubed the number “42” across it,
and one of them had the statement that the Meaning of Life was “love
Sophie”. I thought that this might have been the most inspired answers
I had ever heard. So this statement started me thinking about the
number Forty Two and the Church. These ideas led me to be writing this
essay.

This idea links back to the idea about the Meaning of Life as a concept that needs to be defined.

In
honouring Douglas Adams, the point is that the concept here has not
been defined by modern society. It has been the case that the only
answer to this question, before considering religion, in the history of
Western postmodern society, has been the answer, “Forty Two”.

This
idea is from the classic spoof on space opera written by Douglas Adams,
as everyone will know, The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. After the
destruction of the Earth, the only human survivor travels the Cosmos
without any philosophical purpose or even direction, before approaching
the answer to the ultimate question.

After
quite some time in story terms, involving some paranoia with a coffee
machine and Marvin the Paranoid Android, the hero of our story comes
across some Universalist religious cult. The project of this religion
was to build an enormous super-computer which, after millions of years,
was supposed to have explored the Cosmos in order to answer this, as
being the greatest question available to understanding. The point to
The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy is that this Supercomputer at some
point went wrong; the result being that – after millions of years with
this being a religious issue – the answer delivered by the Supermind,
was “Forty Two”. This having been defined as the only time that the
question has ever been properly answered in Western postmodern culture,
most people’s answer if posed with the question since this statement,
has been to answer “Forty Two”, and then to continue to ignore it.

But
if we’re going to consider the answer to this in a serious context,
this does not answer the question. The “Forty Two” issue raises the
point that there hasn’t been a proper answer to this in a contemporary
philosophical setting. After some long periods of philosophical
thought, then, I came to be asking this question myself because I have
come to accept a serious way of looking at this issue as the most
important concept in theory.

With
the above now having been considered in questioning issues such as What
is the Meaning of Life, an idea came to me that I consider a serious
answer. If we are to consider this question in terms of how we are
aware of our own experience, we then HAVE to ask ourselves at some
point in our lives, as to ARE WE CREATED BY A GOD? The answer to our
question can be considered, if you accept this, as being nearly as
simple as that.

The view
of The Cult of R’Lyeh on Earth is that all World religions stand as one
religious statement; and that this in itself does stand as evidence
that there IS a divine entity that is a creating God. Those who are
familiar with our work will understand our view that all religion makes
one statement. Our previous essay, ‘Religion and The Cult of R’Lyeh on
Earth’ is dedicated to discussing this idea, so I’ll not go into the
idea too much here. The idea though, is that all religious dogma can be
interpreted as being one single issue, so therefore The Cult of R’Lyeh
can take The Necronomicon as our religious Book, as being equal to The
Torah, The New Testament of The Bible, etc. and so forth. It is
relevant at this point, then, that in defining the Meaning of Life, we
should discuss our concept of how God and how World religions work in
context with the existence of the human race.

We’ve
previously discussed our ideas as to how most religious Books start
with The Five Books of Moses. Those that don’t also have equal
religious justifications, and people such as Douglas Adams also come
into the equation. If you read these religious statements, what they
discuss is actual historical fact (with certain exceptions coming into
the statement – The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy is obviously
fiction), with this being important as documenting humanities actual
and historical interaction with God. This is important in that this
interaction with God is fucking serious in the history of humanity,
this being the reason as to why the religious Books exist. Which brings
us back to our original question. What is the Meaning of Life?

Life
must have a “meaning” because mankind is a conscious, and intelligent,
thinking entity of the Cosmos. And if this means that it is instinctive
to ask “why are we here?” our answer to this question is, we believe,
justified with the answer that THE MEANING OF LIFE IS THAT IT PROPOSES
A VIEW TO HUMANITY THAT THERE IS A CREATING GOD. So with that defined,
the issue now is to debate the question, are we created, or are we
intelligent because we are the creation of millions of years of chance
and scientific coincidence? Another question. The Cult of R’Lyeh
therefore look at the World’s religions, and in context with our last
essay – Religion and The Cult of R’Lyeh on Earth – we believe that the
religious Books combine to prove that there is a creating God of Earth.
Not only that, but God’s interaction with mankind is documented here as
being fact. This is the reason why the religious Books stand in society
as being so important, and is the reason why they also exist as
documenting the history of mankind as created by God in the first place.

Religion
and The Cult of R’Lyeh on Earth properly discusses our religious ideas,
but some issues are further discussed here in this context and in
aspect with this essay. If we are answering the question as to the
Meaning of Life here, the answer would be that if we could prove that
there is a God, and if we could prove that we are put on Earth by that
God, then it is logical that we must have been put on Earth to do His
work. Amazing! We’ve been through some of the oldest philosophical and
religious questions, and we’ve come full circle. The Meaning of Life is
that there is a creating God, we were put on this Planet by that God,
and we are here to do His work. At this point it is obvious that the
answer to this question has always been defined. The religions of the
World have always given us this answer. Therefore all of this at this
point comes together. We have answered our question with all of the
above having been defined as the earliest and most basic principals of
human understanding and thought.

The
Cult of R’Lyeh believe that God works in specific ways, however.
Without going into too much detail as to how we believe in a Mythos of
a large number of very weird Gods, we believe that the “God” of
humanity is an actual and physical manifestation. God is not some
mystical force of abstract esoteric occult that cannot be easily
comprehended by the human mind; but is an actual manifestation who
arrives in situations such as ancient Egypt and who talks to elect
human prophets such as Moses and Mohammed. People wouldn’t be wrong to
assume that The Cult of R’Lyeh on Earth have some seriously strange
religious views, but we believe (for certain specific reasons) that God
‘appeared’ to the Jews in Egypt as a Black Pharoh in superhuman form.
We believe that if anyone were to meet with God in this context, then
this is how they would see Him, and that this can be understood in
aspect of some very weird religious study.

To
continue this idea further, with this answering the question, then in
defining the Meaning of Life in this context, then if we are created by
a God to uphold a specific manifest assignment, then the Meaning of
Life is that we are created by a God, and that we are here to uphold a
specific mission on Earth. Which means that we can wrap this idea up
here. If we can define why we are here on Earth, we have defined the
answer to our question. If we are created by a God, then does that in
itself define what is the Meaning of Life, if we can reason the
question in terms of considering the questions put forward by religion?

Unfortunately,
things at this point begin to become less well defined. The problem
with this question must be, then, if most World religions are at war,
is that because God does not seem to have defined His terms all that
clearly? One thing that is clear, though, is that most religions state
that there is a creating God, and that His intellect is obviously quite
huge. However. Religion also accepts that “God moves in mysterious
ways”, and in this religions differentiate as to the reasons for our
creation on Earth.

It is
my view that the mind of God is also quite strange, and that He does
not think like the human animal must. How could a God who “led the Jews
out of slavery in Egypt”, also sit and accept the gassing of millions
of Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1940s? God is incredibly weird, but He
appears and speaks to Mankind in actual and physical terms.

So,
we’ve established now that humankind are created by God (if you accept
this). We are on Earth to worship a creating God and to physically
uphold a purpose as the reason for our existence. So what is the
ultimate achievement of humanity? What are we actually here to do, if
it can be accepted that humanity exist as an act of creation?

The
answer is obviously that humanity cannot clearly define this, because
God has never actually told us. But the human race is also an acutely
intelligent, and also very evil, manifestation of the act of divine
creation.

From Nuclear
Power Generators to breaking the speed of light, the technological
achievements of humankind are advanced. Most of us own a computer that
interprets Stonehenge to process billions of pieces of data in a
millionth of a second. There are so many holographic discs that they’ve
become a point of human evolution. Nuclear war can potentially destroy
our part of space in less than a minute. It could be argued that none
of this would have happened without the Garden of Eden; but if God is
going to leave Space Probes lying about, then that actually is up to
Him.

If you’ve been
following the logic so far, we’ve now defined ourselves as being
conscious because we are intelligent and because we are here to serve a
creating God. We continue that in terms of being created by that God,
human kind has been created as being instinctively evil.

Does
the train of logic follow, then, that the mind of God is not so
straightforward, and that mankind was created for some massive and
Cosmological act of destruction? Does it here follow that if God wanted
to destroy the entire Galaxy, then He would have created mankind in
order for us to do this on His behalf? Is it here defined that religion
therefore makes this statement?

As
we say, the human race is a highly evil and intelligent creation. Our
history on Earth is both of these, and there seems to be no limit to
what humanity can achieve. I don’t know really how to relay this idea
but – at risk of being abducted by people from UFOs – it really doesn’t
take much reasoning to comprehend that the human animal could quite
easily destroy the Galaxy if that were our assignment, then, as being
an intelligent creation.

It
is the concept here, then, in context with everything so far having
been written, that the purpose of humanity is to destroy the Galaxy in
the name of this purpose on Earth as the intelligent creation of God.
Humanity are, as stated, highly intelligent, but we were also created
as being intrinsically evil. All of this is the deliberate intention of
this creating God, and the Cult of R’Lyeh on Earth here announce that
we therefore accept and worship this God who created us as intelligent,
to destroy the Galaxy as to the extent of our divinity of worship, as
we stand as a new religious cause to uphold these beliefs in the name
of this Worship. In summing up, it is hereby upheld as reasoned that
God has created mankind, and we will ultimately uphold our purpose as
His creations when we have successfully ended the Galaxy. It is defined
as being reasoned, then, that this ultimate goal must be our entire
purpose if we are to uphold our divinity of Worship.

Defining
this is religious enlightenment to ourselves, as the Cult who set up to
demand that Cthulhu be worshipped on Earth. What this means to us as
religious, is that the Fall from Grace must have been Lucifer in
voicing His divine objection to this as the purpose of God. If religion
is to understand insanity, then, Lucifer must therefore stand as the
Saviour of the Cosmos, if there is one, because He was cast down for
objecting to the absolute destruction of all life and of creation. The
Cult of R’Lyeh must uphold the Worship of God, though, because if He is
all powerful, then the destruction of the Galaxy will ultimately happen.

The
Cult of R’Lyeh, then stand to threaten the destruction of the Galaxy as
the absolute reason for creation. The followers of the Cult of R’Lyeh
will attain the highest level of eternal bliss in successfully
instigating the ultimate act of Worship in destroying everything that
exists. In absolute blood we will stand at the Courts of Heaven,
accepted as the personal Children of God.

Which
brings us full circle, really. Now new discoveries, nothing new really
having been defined. The whole of humanity have always known and upheld
the Meaning of Life without properly acknowledging it, with Douglas
Adams humorously having thrown in the answer ‘42’. Religious questions
answered; the answers here being what we’ve been told by World
religions all of the way since the beginning.

So,
as a result of all of this – including the Alpha Course held at the
local Church – I’ve decided to become devout as the congregation of
that Church. God has by implication demanded that the Galaxy be
destroyed, and now I worship Him devoutly towards these ends. The
Christian Church have converted me then. Let the Heavens be open to me
who stands to Worship the single creating and all powerful destroying
God. AMEN.